Hello Folks,
Thanks for accepting me into the colony! I'm glad to be here and I look forward to interacting with each of you in the near future.
I guess I'll just launch into this?
I've decided to use the pseudonym Jay Burns for my writing and Litopia for the time being. . I've lived on all three U.S. coasts now as well as a couple of states in between. I'm a Marine-turned-slacker and an itch-footed fool. I'm thirty-eight years old with the humor of someone half that age. I've had a lot of story-worthy experiences. I'd also like to write some short fiction eventually.
The only writing I've really done was in high school and in creative writing classes I did at a community college while in trade school. I enjoyed those projects and would say I did well. I've always been too self-conscious to write outside of that. I've also written many songs that no one has heard save for what my wife has probably overheard.
Being a lifelong fan of good music and literature, I've always envied people that could paint such a clear picture in my mind or make me feel a certain way. It's like someone traveled through time and space via ink on paper to tell me something. It's really kind of trippy if you think about it. This is why I want to become a good writer.
My favorite authors are Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson, Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Chuck Palahniuk and Frank Herbert.
This is a writer's colony but music is so important to me. I'm a guitarist/songwriter. My influences are Townes Van Zant, Waylon Jennings, Jay Farrar, Ryan Bingham and Mike Ness.
Again, thank you for the warm welcome and I look forward to getting to know you all..
Jay
Thanks for accepting me into the colony! I'm glad to be here and I look forward to interacting with each of you in the near future.
I guess I'll just launch into this?
I've decided to use the pseudonym Jay Burns for my writing and Litopia for the time being. . I've lived on all three U.S. coasts now as well as a couple of states in between. I'm a Marine-turned-slacker and an itch-footed fool. I'm thirty-eight years old with the humor of someone half that age. I've had a lot of story-worthy experiences. I'd also like to write some short fiction eventually.
The only writing I've really done was in high school and in creative writing classes I did at a community college while in trade school. I enjoyed those projects and would say I did well. I've always been too self-conscious to write outside of that. I've also written many songs that no one has heard save for what my wife has probably overheard.
Being a lifelong fan of good music and literature, I've always envied people that could paint such a clear picture in my mind or make me feel a certain way. It's like someone traveled through time and space via ink on paper to tell me something. It's really kind of trippy if you think about it. This is why I want to become a good writer.
My favorite authors are Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson, Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Chuck Palahniuk and Frank Herbert.
This is a writer's colony but music is so important to me. I'm a guitarist/songwriter. My influences are Townes Van Zant, Waylon Jennings, Jay Farrar, Ryan Bingham and Mike Ness.
Again, thank you for the warm welcome and I look forward to getting to know you all..
Jay
Your songwriting will sooo help you're writing, you'll have an inbuilt rhythm. Looking forward to reading your work. Decades ago, I read a quite famous book about a guy in the SAS hiking through the desert in Afganistan (I think). Your exploits could be dramatised like that. I bet they're exciting. Sorry, I'm hopeless, can't remember the name of the book!
